by Zahid Mian Did you hear about the Mexican who was arrested for saying “hasta la vista”? Apparently someone nearby thought he was an illegal alien robot come to destroy the American dream. What about the Italian man arrested for mob-like activity when he was buying a car and uttered “I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse”? Or the Arab who was kicked off a plane because he spoke in his native language? Apparently a passenger and crew... Read more

by Seidu Malik When a child has all sorts of great ideas to make the world a beautiful place but then realizes with age that those ideas are in fact fantasies, he changes course and embraces the reality of things. If anyone taunts him later on in life as to what happened to those great ideas, the matured child is more than happy to confess that those were childhood days. That is, the imaginary world he is used to is... Read more

by Usama Awan This murder case, one of a kind in history, is so emotionally charged and contentious that many people have made the victim a mythological figure, one that defies all laws of nature and biology. Some even re-enact the murder scene every year to commemorate his death. While on the other hand, many maintain that the execution didn’t even happen and that people are stuck in fables. Academics, throughout the years, have failed to give an intellectually and... Read more

by Hassan Mahmood Written in response to an opinion published by Father James V. Schall S.J to CatholicWorldReport.com on April 17th entitled “Realism and Islam.” The original article can be found here: http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Item/4731/realism_and_islam.aspx What is realistic? Certainly, it is to assess things as they are.. It is no great leap of logic to then proclaim that to realistically judge men, they too must be judged by their actions. But what does this say about an ideal? If men fall far... Read more

by Ramlah Malhi-Saifi Often the progress of a nation is hampered by those with corrupt agendas. Yet all it takes is one law to change the tides. Such is the case in Pakistan. The Punjab Province in Pakistan recently passed a law protecting women from abuse of any sort. The Protection of Women Against Violence Bill protects women from physical violence, abusive language, stalking, and cyber crimes against women in Punjab. To a citizen of Western democracies, these human rights... Read more

by Adil Agha Khan       At least 65 people were murdered and upwards of 300 wounded in a suicide bombing in Lahore, Pakistan on Easter Sunday. The majority of the victims were women and children. I cannot even comprehend my own emotions regarding this matter. The fact is that it is like a sensory overload of pain which leaves me utterly unable to process this matter completely. What cowardly person would even seek to harm a single hair on the head of a... Read more

by Seidu Malik For thousands of years, society has held religion in the highest esteem due it impeccable teachings and the moral upbringing of its followers that produced outstanding individuals like Prophet Abraham, Moses, Jesus Christ and Muhammad just to mention a few. Our world as we know it today: its culture, politics, calendar and society in general have been influenced by our past religious affiliations.  It is worthy of note that those claiming to follow religion in the past... Read more

by Tahir Nasser With greater scrutiny on Islamic teachings in the wake of terrorism committed by Muslims, a raft of pundits, not least of the Christian evangelical strain, like Nabeel Qureshi, have emerged. In his latest piece in the Huffington Post, his misrepresentation of Islam follows two steps: Firstly, he argues that when studying Islam, preference should be given to oral traditions, first written down more than two centuries after the death of the Prophet of Islam, rather than the... Read more